> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> One thing to note - <comment> has already been used by IE6 and earlier >> as an alternative to the <!-- --> syntax for HTML comments. Â They >> apparently stopped supporting this in IE7, though (I can confirm that >> it no longer does anything special in IE8), so we probably don't have >> to worry about it. Â No other browser does anything special for it, it >> seems, so the compat impact is apparently small enough to be ignored. > > Sorry, I was using IE9 beta accidentally. IE9 beta treats <comment> > like an ordinary unknown element. IE7 and IE8 both treat it like an > HTML comment. > > That's probably sufficient backwards-incompatibility to kill the idea > of using that particular name for this element. > > ~TJ
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Richard Summers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was >> wondering, is there any plan to implement a <comment> element within the >> HTML5 spec? > > On Mon, 2010-12-13 Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > "comment" isn't an available element name for historical reasons: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535229(v=vs.85).aspx If it turns out the idea of having an element specific to comments does gain traction, perhaps it could be called <feedback> instead. - Bruce ---------------------------------------- Author, The HTML Pocket Guide (Peachpit) (Covers HTML 4, XHTML 1, and HTML5)
